How to show the max value in a certain column as a text in Note

[Kei_Saito]

Suppose you have sales data. Each row represents an order. Now, you want to show the max sales amount per order as a text in the note like “The max sales amount per order is $xxxx”. Here is how.

First, check the data frame name and column name you want to show.

Then, open a note and write an R expression to get the max value. You can refer a column in the following syntax.

(data frame name)$(column name)

In this case, it will be

Global_Sales$Sales

Once you are done with the R expression, surround the expression with “`r” and “`” like following.

`r max(Global_Sales$Sales)`

This portion will be evaluated and replaced with the output in the final document. You can hit the Refresh button to see the output.

[Stephanie_Brady]

What expression would you use if you wanted to output “John Doe had the max sales amount per order ($4912.59).”? I have a similar use case.

[Stephanie_Brady]

This related DM reply (from Kei) helped me so much!

Yes. You can use the following notation to access the value.

(dataframe name)$(value column name)[[(key column name)=="(key value)"]]

I basically added “max(dataframe name$value column name)” after the “==” and it worked for my situation.